Excerpt from A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook, Vol. 1 of 2: With an Account of His Life, During the Previous and Intervening Periods In various respects, new information will be found in the present performance and other things, which were less perfectly known before, are set in a clearer and fuller light. This, I trust. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.